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The Littlest Redhead

This gorgeous wee bundle of fluff is the newest addition to our wee family. We picked him up last week from a shelter after Cole had started making noises that he was ready to think about another kitten. Ginger Ninja... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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Just like sands through the hour glass...

Oh life. We've had rather a lot of it lately. Almost all good - I hasten to add - but it does rather impact on one's ability to report about said life, when one is busy living it! (One does... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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The thing about rabbits...

...is there's never just one. These little cuties were made for some favourite people, to pop in with their Christmas love. Immy insisted on determining which bunny was for whom, and how each bunny's ears should be -so some are... Continue reading

Posted Feb 23, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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Immy's quilt

The new quilts for Cole and Immy's beds seem to be painfully slow in coming together, but I'm trying to focus on progress being progress...at least I'm heading the right direction, right? I only have another 2 or 3 rows... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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13/02/2013

Immy found what I thought was an interesting little stone on the footpath at school yesterday, and it was only when she picked it up that I realised it was a tiny eastern long-neck turtle! (And it is properly tiny... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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Teacher gnomes

To thank Cole and Imogen's gorgeous kindergarten teachers at the end of the year, we gave them each a strawberry plant, so that they would have something sweet to nibble on over the holidays. I couldn't leave it at just... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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Candlestick Makers' aprons

Thank you so much for the lovely messages and kind words on condolence following Mahe's death. Cole and Imogen are doing very well, and we are working through this grief together. Cookie is getting plenty of cuddles and there has... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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RIP Mr Mahe

We lost a dear sweet member of the family this morning, when Mahe - Cole's beloved cat, and constant companion to his little-sister-cat Cookie was run over. We are all very sad - Mahe was just one of those truly... Continue reading

Posted Jan 31, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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No need for Roo bars...

...we just use neon string around these parts. To tie our kangaroos to our cars. Our remote control cars... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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Cole's porthole quilt

Until just before we left for camping, this quilt top was taking up all the room on my design wall (and you can see the very top row was hanging on mostly by luck!) It's a new quilt for Coley,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 26, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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Stuff I learnt while camping...

So, the Campbells have returned, windswept and sunkissed and with sand lingering in many a crevice, from a lovely week at the beach. This is the first time we'd ever done the camping/tenting thing since we'd been together - so... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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Camping Campbells

This is our place for the next few days...we're away for a week of camping, complete with a rather harried very-amusing-in-hindsight-typical-Campbell start to the proceedings! I'm sitting here in the shade listening to the roar of the ocean (and nursing... Continue reading

Posted Jan 17, 2013 at TropicalSoup

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Happy New Year!

I hope you had a wonderful one...and for those of you West of us, I hope you're having/ planning to have a good one too! We went down to the riverbank in town to watch the 9pm fireworks (such a... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Rabbit holes....

...I keep falling into them and losing days! Is that happening to anyone else at the moment? Some sort of glabal rabbit hole epidemic? No? Continue reading

Posted Nov 29, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Could not be more proud

When she asked to use a charm pack of solids to set out a little quilt, I was envisaging a simple layout-of-square-blocks scenario. I should have known better. Now that {almost} all the details for Mouse's first masterpiece are in... Continue reading

Posted Nov 15, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Halloween party in the park

We hosted a halloween party. At a local park. It was awesome - an actual kangaroo (complete with joey) even showed up to disrupt an impromptu soccer game! For the month prior, both kids had been dead set on dressing... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Solid indecision

Hello blossoms! Well, I have been trying to get into the studio and actually produce something in the wee moments that I find available at the moment. It seems though that I am suffering a little from inspiration overload, and... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Bringing happy back

Good grief, lately it seems as though I have time to either live or blog about life, craft or record said craftiness...I'm sure you can figure out which options I chose! One of the things that has had us all... Continue reading

Posted Nov 4, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Legacy

...and in other news chez Campbell, the legacy of *Crash Campbell* lives on, just the junior version this time! No broken bones (phew!) but Cole added this spectacular decoration to his face yesterday. On a skateboard. The same skateboard that... Continue reading

Posted Oct 14, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Pointy solids

I had the desire to make a quilt just with solids - I've seen so many beauties around, and solids are so versatile. I have also been thinking about how I'd like to do another half-square triangle quilt* and I... Continue reading

Posted Oct 14, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Clever tricks

Cole had the idea and set up this shot, ready for me to capture him *balancing* his sister. It's pretty darn cute - and very indicative of how I feel at the moment - lots of crazy balancing going on!... Continue reading

Posted Oct 9, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Hanging out in classical literature

Cole and Immy had book day at school recently, and the students were encouraged to dress up as their favourite literary characters, with the theme of *champions*. Cole and Immy took the job of deciding their characters all very seriously,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 24, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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policy papers and equilateral triangles

I am very much enamoured with equilateral triangle quilts at the moment, and am itching to retreat into the wonderland that is my studio and have a go. Unfortunately, I have a paper for work that needs to be written... Continue reading

Posted Aug 25, 2012 at TropicalSoup

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Thank you. I hadn't read that post (am playing catch up with my favourite blogs as life has well and truly gotten in the way - as it should!) but the reassurance and the empathy is always a lovely thing to read. Meg, you are such a lovely, inspirational woman, mother, crafter et al...every time I visit your home on the nets, I leave feeling invigorated and enthused. Thank you!

Commented Aug 25, 2012 on mama solidarity at Sew Liberated

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My goodness I've fallen so behind on reading your blog (life!) and wow - you seem to just have every project recently aimed perfectly for us and what my kids are into at the moment! Thank you so much - your blog is such a valuable tool for ideas and springboards for our creative endeavours!

Commented Aug 25, 2012 on Our Two Favorite Watercolor Techniques Combined at The Artful Parent